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Re:Why Does Everyone Run Ancient Postgres Versions? by xpasky on Thursday October 17, 2024 @08:04PM (#41875089)
Related...

  postgres    1958  0.0  0.0 247616 26040 ?        S    Jul21   3:03 /usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/postgres
  postgres 1085195  0.0  0.0 249804 24740 ?        Ss   Aug19   2:01 /usr/lib/postgresql/13/bin/postgres
  postgres 1085196  0.0  0.0 223240 27900 ?        Ss   Aug19   1:59 /usr/lib/postgresql/15/bin/postgres
Postgres is the only thing on my Debian that doesn't seamlessly automatically upgrade across dist-upgrades, but instead leaves old versions around for me to deal with manually... which I seem to never get around to.
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Re:Why Does Everyone Run Ancient Postgres Versions? by heavyset_go on Thursday October 17, 2024 @08:08PM (#41875113)
That's because you install versioned packages like postgres-15: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/postgresql-15

That way you can have multiple versions of the same package.

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Re:Why Does Everyone Run Ancient Postgres Versions? by xpasky on Friday October 18, 2024 @05:24AM (#41877672)
You mean there is some other way to install postgresql in Debian?
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Re:Why Does Everyone Run Ancient Postgres Versions? by heavyset_go on Saturday October 19, 2024 @06:27PM (#41891268)
No, what I meant is that the install path for Postgres on Debian involves installing versioned packages. It's the only approved way of installing Postgres from the Debian repos that I'm aware of.
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